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Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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